Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2013:053 First vendor Publication 2013-04-05
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2013-04-05
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 1.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 1.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in proftpd:

ProFTPD before 1.3.5rc1, when using the UserOwner directive, allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files via a race condition and a symlink attack on the (1) MKD or (2) XMKD commands (CVE-2012-6095).

The updated packages have been patched to correct thies issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:053

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-362 Race Condition

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19810
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19810
Title: DSA-2606-1 proftpd-dfsg - symlink race
Description: It has been discovered that in ProFTPd, an FTP server, an attacker on the same physical host as the server may be able to perform a symlink attack allowing to elevate privileges in some configurations.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2606-1
CVE-2012-6095
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
Product(s): proftpd-dfsg
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 71

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-01-19 Name : The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.
File : solaris11_proftpd_20130924.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-25 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201309-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-06-24 Name : The remote FTP server is affected by an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability.
File : proftpd_mkd_xmkd_file_overwrite.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-04-20 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2013-053.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-31 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-0437.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-31 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-0468.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-31 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-0483.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2606.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-02-17 11:43:26
  • Multiple Updates
2013-04-05 21:17:34
  • First insertion